{"id":5820,"date":"2020-04-09T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:45:38","slug":"pcr-assays-turned-positive-in-25-discharged-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/09\/pcr-assays-turned-positive-in-25-discharged-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"PCR Assays Turned Positive in 25 Discharged COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yuan et al report on the laboratory and clinical characteristics of 25 patients in China who met hospital criteria for discharge, yet remained carriers of SARS-CoV-2 after recovery from COVID-19. They suggest that two negative RT-PCR tests 24 hours apart may not be sufficient for viral clearance evaluation, and recommend repeating RT-PCR testing at least 48 hours after the first test and recommend holding patients longer to ensure the virus is cleared.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yuan et al. (April 8, 2020). PCR Assays Turned Positive in 25 Discharged COVID-19 Patients. Preprint downloaded April 9 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa398\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa398<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan et al report on the laboratory and clinical characteristics of 25 patients in China who met hospital criteria for discharge, yet remained carriers of SARS-CoV-2 after recovery from COVID-19. They suggest that two negative RT-PCR tests 24 hours apart may not be sufficient for viral clearance evaluation, and recommend repeating RT-PCR testing at least&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/09\/pcr-assays-turned-positive-in-25-discharged-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}